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...Grounds, according to department head Cecil A. Roberts, has tried, "all normal means" to remove the paint without success. "We spent all day Friday trying to get it off," Roberts said. The department is currently consulting Harvard chemical laboratories for advice. If nothing else works, the paint will be sand-blasted...
...Bombay the Indians did their bit to make the matches interesting. Captain Ramanathan Krishnan inspected the Cricket Club's slick clay court, groaned, "The Yanks will murder us on this," and ordered a new court to be built immediately-out of sand, an old Indian recipe guaranteed to take the bounce out of the ball, to say nothing of the Yanks. On the appointed day, the temperature was in the 90s, flocks of cawing crows hovered low overhead, and Indian fans heckled the Americans' both from the stands and from nearby apartment-house balconies. When California...
...Virgin Islands used to be the place to forget about the factory. The sand is white, the weather right, the pleasures plentiful-and a Pan Am tourist book even advises women visi tors to leave their girdles at home. Now industry is coming to the Virgins, and the results so far are unsettling to many of the islands' 36,000 year-round residents...
...Jack's too, apparently. On the final day he rattled off four birdies in five holes. The par-four sixth hole presented a problem when his second shot caught a trap 70 ft. from the pin. So he pulled out his sand wedge, swung-and blasted the ball straight into the cup. At that, the Duke of Windsor, watching from the edge of the green, tumbled straight off his shooting stick. "Greatest shot I ever saw," he gasped. Arnie Palmer yanked his ailing game together to fire a 34 and ensure the U.S. team a victory that was worth...
...marshy areas around Honolulu, over the years created 5,000 acres of solid ground that now holds a full third of the city's population, is valued at upwards of $280 million. Most valuable of all is a section that before 1925 was nothing but a narrow sand crescent, covered with foul-smelling flotsam and surrounded by 1,000 acres of swamp. Dillingham's men slashed a two-mile canal through the marshes, and drained the area. It is now called Waikiki Beach...